Blessings through Praise
As I sit here, listening to my children sleep and my dog snore(he’s a German Shepherd and he snores LOUD) I decided to take some time to just think. And my thinking led me here to share about blessings.
How often at the end of the day do you just crawl into bed? How often are you so exhausted that you can’t think beyond “man I’m tired”? Or are you the kind that watches a movie before bed? I know this probably sounds like a lot of questions and not many answers and you’d be right!
So here are the answers. . . . wait no I don’t have all the answers, but I do have a few to my questions. As I sat in my comfy chair rocking my littlest to sleep I had time to just think. No distractions as she had gone to the point of no longer fighting sleep. I began to think about my word of the year PRAISE and what my life was doing so far this year. Face it, we’re already 18 days into the year so that should give us a small sampling of what is to come.
I sat there and a song popped into my head. The song was from a favorite Christmas movie of mine. The song is Counting Your Blessings sung by Bing Crosby in White Christmas. It really gets you thinking.
It made me think at least. What do we count as our blessings in our life? Do we count our family? I definitely count mine. I thank God daily for giving me 9 wonderful little kiddos. I love them and I am daily reminded of how great a blessing they are to me. I hope that they will one day count me as a blessing to them as well.
What other blessings are we counting? I count it a blessing that I have a house, heat in my house, food to feed my children, and clothes to wear. But these aren’t just blessings either, they are praises to God. I’ve never been one to vocally go preaching from the rooftops about God and Jesus and their love for mankind. I’m more of the let them know by the works of your hands type of a gal. I want people to see Jesus through me and my actions.
So I’ve decided I need to start focusing more on my blessings and praising God, whether I’m alone of whether there are people around. Does it really matter if we thank God in front of others? To me it did! I was embarrassed really because I am actually a shy person and not that outgoing. I didn’t want to be noticed. I wanted to just fade into the background and not draw too much attention to myself. But now that I have children I don’t want them to think that we need to hide Jesus in public and only give Him praises at home. No. We need to praise Him and thank Him for our blessings where ever we are and who ever we’re around.
Now that I’ve shared this I think I am going to go curl up in bed next to one of my blessings and listen to the rest sleep as I drift off to sleep myself listing my blessings in my head. I think you’ll find you sleep better too when you try this. You fall asleep with positives on your brain this way!
Debbie
So often we forget to be thankful for what we have. Great post
LisaLisa
This is such a wonderful post! I agree, we do tend to forget at times. I too count my blessings everyday for God is always good!
Amy
At times it’s easy to forget to count your blessings. I know I have in the past, but the past 5 months… I have been so much more thankful for what God has given me. I have a wonderful son, an amazing stepdaughter, a loving Husband…. and now we have a little one on the way in may. Her little kicks at night make me remember to count my blessings and say thank you to the one who made them all happen!
Maye Domencil
Aw! This post just hit me. I really need to slow down if I can’t stop. I agree, sometimes we forgot that we are blessed enough with what we already have. Sometimes, we wished too much that we cannot appreciate what we have are just what we need. We totally forget to count our blessings. And this post reminds me to stop, take deep breath and say all praises to God. Thank you 🙂
Amberm
I personally need to work on counting my blessings when in the hard times! As it’s easy to count blessings and thank God for them when we are having a great day but when times get hard I tend to stray away from being thankful to God for the good and than bad! Great post!
Erin S.
This is something I struggle with as well. I’m glad it touched someone.
Debbie L.
Very lovely post – I am so lucky I have so much to be Thankful for. This post reminds me to stop and be thankful for my blessings.
Char W
It’s great to reflect on blessings on a daily basis. It seems so many people are in a rush nowadays.
Jessi Timmermans
First of all, I love that movie… it is my #1.
Secondly, I need to do this more. At the end of the day, I lay down and sleep all too often.
Erin S.
It normally takes me a while to fall asleep and I think this is a great way to make sure we fall asleep in the positive.
Kandi
I am constantly reminding the hubby to quit thinking so negative and to remember all God has done for us. I too struggle with that so I have a plaque with Phil 4:8 hanging on our wall reminding me to focus on the good, the true, and the praise worthy. I think I need to hang that in my classroom!
Erin S.
That would make a great sampler as well!
Taralyn
I adore that song from White Christmas – one of my favorites. Such a needed reminder!
Erin S.
It’s one of my favorite movies!
Debbie Denny
Fantastic post. I am glad you have such beautiful blessings.
Mommy Battles
Great post. In the constant rush it’s easy to forget the blessings and we definitely should remind ourselves of all the beautiful things in life.